Approximately one-fourth of each generation since Roe has been lost to abortion

It is nearly impossible to grasp the estimated 64 million preborn human lives abortion has ended in America since 1973. Each generation has its own death toll, and each life lost is a tragedy.

Key Takeaways:

Abortion was decriminalized nationwide following the infamous Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision handed down on January 22, 1973. Comparing birth data with abortion data during specific generational ranges, Live Action News has estimated the following:

Generation X: 8.7 million lives lost to abortion.

• Abortion snuffed out nearly one-quarter (24.88%) of this generation.

• For every three (3.02) Generation X babies born from 1973-1980, one baby was aborted.

Millennials: 24.5 million lives lost to abortion.

• Abortion snuffed out nearly one-third (28.31%) of this generation.

• For every 2.5 Millennial babies born, one baby was aborted.

Generation Z: 16.3 million lives lost to abortion.

• Abortion snuffed out nearly one-third (28.81%) of this generation.

• For nearly every 2.5 Gen Z babies born, one baby was aborted.

Generation Alpha: 14.4 million lives lost to abortion.

• Abortion snuffed out nearly one-fifth (20%) of of this generation.

• For nearly every four (3.97) Generation Alpha babies born, one baby was aborted.

Generation Beta: One million lives lost so far to abortion.

• So far, abortion has already snuffed out one-fifth (22%) of this generation.

• For nearly every 3.5 babies born, one Gen Beta baby was aborted.

Background:

To calculate the generations lost to abortion, Live Action News used annual abortion data from Planned Parenthood's former "special affiliate," the Guttmacher Institute, and compared those numbers to live birth data published at infoplease.com.

The Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision that overturned Roe v. Wade was decided by the United States Supreme Court on June 24, 2022 and allowed some states to ban or significantly restrict abortion.

However, since that decision, abortion data has been less reliable due to several factors. One is the eagerness of pro-abortion lawmakers to protect abortion providers over women and children by enacting shield laws protecting abortionists from prosecution when they send abortion pills through the mail into states where abortion is illegal or restricted.

Therefore, these figures likely do not represent all abortions, making the death toll even greater than we can calculate in hard numbers. As Guttmacher stated when publishing 2024 abortion data:

“It is important to note that these annual estimates are almost certainly an undercount, as they include only those abortions obtained within the formal US health care system: at brick-and-mortar health facilities, such as clinics or doctor’s offices, and via telehealth and virtual providers.”

The data does not include lives lost to natural miscarriage or ectopic pregnancies.

The Details:

Live Action News previously published data on generational losses to abortion. However, since that publication, new generational time periods have been released which have slightly altered previous numbers.

Generation X – (1965-1980)

Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, so calculations are based on that date forward.

• An estimated 8.7 million (8,736,000) preborn lives were lost to abortion between 1973-1980.

• In that same timespan, 26.4 million (26,375,476) births occurred, according to infoplease.com.

• This represents a total of 35.11 million babies (35,111,476), with nearly one-quarter (24.88%) of Generation X aborted.

That means that for every three (3.02) Generation X babies born between 1973-1980, one baby was aborted since Roe v. Wade was decided.

Millennials – (1981-1996)

• An estimated 24.5 million (24,514,400) preborn lives lost to abortion.

• infoplease.com reveals that during this same timeframe, over 62 million births (62,055,410) took place.

• This represents a total of 86.6 million babies (86,569,810), with nearly one-third (28.31%) of Millennials aborted.

That means that for every 2.5 Millennial babies born, one baby was aborted.

Generation Z (1997-2009)

In Live Action News' previous analysis we calculated lives lost for this generation as 1996-2017 (estimated 24 million) since there was no other generational marker at that time.

However, since that article published, Generation Alpha has been created; therefore, Live Action News is adjusting Gen Z's birth ranges to 1997-2009.

• An estimated 16.3 million (16,335,900) preborn babies from Generation Z were lost to abortion.

• infoplease.com reveals that, during this same timeframe, over 40.3 million births (40,360,813) took place.

• This represents a total of 56.70 million babies (56,696,713), with nearly one-third (28.81%) of GenZ being aborted.

That means that for nearly every 2.5 Gen Z babies born, one baby was aborted.

Generation Alpha (2010-2024)

The Library of Congress defines Generation Alpha as those born between (2010-2024). Using data from the last published report from Guttmacher:

• An estimated 14.4 million (14,432,905) preborn babies from Generation Alpha lost to abortion.

• Over 57.3 million births (57,315,846) took place during this same timeframe, according to infoplease.com .

• This represents a total of 71.75 million babies (71,748,751), with nearly one-fifth (20%) of Generation Alpha aborted.

This means that for nearly every four (3.97) Generation Alpha babies born one baby was aborted.

Generation Beta (2024- )

Generation Beta begins in 2024 where 1,038,100 abortions were recorded. That number is included in the above category as well and we will monitor and adjust lives lost to abortion in this generation as the years progress.

• An estimated 1,038,100 abortions were recorded.

• Provisional data published by the CDC showed that 3,622,673 births occurred that same year.

• This represents a total of 4,660,773 Generation Beta babies in 2024, with over one fifth (22%) aborted.

That means that for nearly every 3.5 babies born, one Gen Beta baby was aborted.

Decades of Violence

Using data published by the Guttmacher Institute, the impact abortion has had in America by decade is horrifying:

• 1973 to 1979: nearly 7.2 million

• 1980 to 1989: nearly 16 million

• 1990 to 1999: 14.3 million

• 2000 to 2009: 12.4 million

• 2010 to 2019: 9.5 million

• 2020-2024 (last reported number) nearly 5 million

Why It Matters:

A few years ago, I visited the Holocaust Museum in Dallas. During my trip, I was moved to tears by the displays of artifacts from Jews who were taken to various Nazi concentration camps where their bodies were stripped of all humanity.

The Nazis took their teeth, clothes, and any other possessions they saw as “valuable,” leaving only their naked bodies to be worked, beaten, starved — and, in most cases — murdered.

On a wall in that museum was a petition published in 1943. It struck me then and continues to haunt me today. It read in part:

“It is not enough to indict and name the murderers. It is time for America and the United Nations to act! Every hour sees the murder of more thousands… How well are you sleeping? Is there something you could have done to save millions of innocent people, men, women and children from torture and death?”

While the Nazi Holocaust eventually ended, the Nazis killed six million Jewish people and millions more non-Jewish individuals.

Writing in The Guardian, John Izard’s review of the book, “Backing Hitler,” draws a descriptive picture of how society stood complicit in the crimes of the Nazis:

They knew concentration camps were full of Jewish people who were stigmatized as sub-human and race-defilers. They knew that these, like other groups and minorities, were being killed out of hand.

They knew that Adolf Hitler had repeatedly forecast the extermination of every Jew on German soil. They knew these details because they had read about them. They knew because the camps and the measures which led up to them had been prominently and proudly reported step by step in thousands of officially-inspired German media articles and posters…

They knew… and just like the German people knew, America knows what abortion is doing to countless generations. The inhumanity of abortion has resulted in millions more lives lost.

The Bottom Line

Today, every day in America, nearly 3,000 innocent preborn children are violently dismembered or poisoned by abortion. Abortion doesn't just impact the preborn victims but society as a whole.

Abortion's evil has devastated generations. Knowing what you now know, America — how well are you sleeping?